[BHS etree] MISC: Summer Reading and Dancing at Berkeley Public Library

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Teens!  Pack reading into your summer plans at 
the Berkeley Public Library and take part in a 
Dance Dance Revolution!

TEENS! Wherever this summer takes you-São Paolo, 
Brazil, or San Pablo, California, or even if you 
never leave Berkeley-please send Berkeley Public 
Library's Teen Service Department a postcard 
every time you finish reading a book. (This 
includes books, graphic novels and audiobooks.) 
The rules are simple.

Tell them what you've been reading and what you 
thought about it. One book per postcard and one 
postcard per book, please, but you can send in as 
many postcards as you have different books to 
report.

Please include: book title, author, and number of 
pages, two or three sentences about the book 
saying why did you like it (or not)?  Who else 
might enjoy it? Include your name and address 
(mailing address or email) if you want to have 
your postcard(s) entered in the drawing for a 
grand prize. Send in as many postcards as you 
like! All postcards are due by August 17.

Please mail your postcard(s) to: Teen Services, Berkeley Public Library,
2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, CA 94704 U

...or drop them off at the Reference Desk at any 
Berkeley Public Library.  Need a postcard?  Ask 
at the Reference Desk or at the four branches: 
Claremont, North, South and West. The postcards 
already have postage and a return address. Or get 
a blank one and fill it out right there.  Better 
yet, send a "real" postcard from where ever you 
visit. However, different postage is required if 
the card is sent from outside the USA.

Receive recognition prizes-books, gift 
certificates, or zip drives for: the first 
postcard received, longest book read, shortest 
book read, most creative book comment, most 
creative artwork on postcard, most books read, 
most pages read, postcard sent from the furthest 
distance etc. Prizes are courtesy of Alko Office 
Supply, Black Oak Books, Cody's, Dark Carnival, 
Friends of the Berkeley Public Library, Pendragon 
Book store and other local merchants.

Postcard comments will be posted on the library's 
Web site or talk with a Teen Services librarian 
about webcasting your comments on the library 
website. Postcards are due by August 17, 2007, so 
start reading and writing us.

DANCING IN THE LIBRARY
Libraries are for more then just reading, and the 
Berkeley Public Library's Teen Services 
Department  proves it with its recent acquisition 
of a Play Station 2®, two dance pads  and Dance 
Dance Revolution, or DDR®, as it is know by 
teens. DDR® is a video game that uses a Play 
Station 2 and a dance pad. The colorful pad has 
sensors in it that keep track of a player's foot 
work. It has arrows that mark directions, left, 
right, front and back and more. These panels are 
pressed using the player's feet, in response to 
arrows that appear on the screen in front of the 
player.  The player tried to move their feet to 
the beat of the selected song and scores point 
depending on how well their feet follow the 
directions on the screen.

Teen Services has scheduled two DDR events for 
this summer. The first is Saturday, July 7 from 2 
to5 p.m. The second DDR® event will be Tuesday 
August 7 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. This is after the 
monthly Teen Advisory Group Meeting (TAG) which 
allows local teen to give feedback to the 
Library.  So come for the TAG and stay for the 
DDR®. Dancers have the Friends of the Berkeley 
Public Library to thank for the equipment.

For questions regarding this program, please 
email Kay Finney or call 510-981-6135.  For 
accessibility information, call 510-981-6107, TTY 
510-548-1240.